The United Arab Emirates has initialed an “open sky” Air Services Agreement and signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Albania in Dubai.WAM DubaiThe agreement was initialed by Saif Mohammed Al Suwaidi, Director General of the UAE General Civil Aviation Authority, GCAA and Ernest Noka, Albania’s deputy minister of transport.
Author: Hetty Proudhonne There is a lot of talk concerning medical tourism, but not many know that going abroad for medical care is a fast-rising source of tourism dollars for many countries in several continents . Medical tourism not only refers to traveling to another country to obtain medical care. It can also mean doctors [...]
Albanian writer Ismaíl Kadaré has been bestowed with the 2009 Prince of Asturias Award for Letters. The decision was announced by the Jury in Oviedo today.
Albanian writer Ismail Kadare will receive Spain’s highest literary honour, the Asturias prize, at a Friday ceremony in Oviedo.
The Siege by Ismail Kadare was published recently in English, almost 40 years after it came out in Albania. The historical novel, written during Albania’s isolation imposed by the communist regime, is a fascinating allegory of this part of the Balkans in the 1970s– a reality which no Albanian writer was allowed to describe in a more direct way at the time.
Researchers say it appears that a food additive found in many processed foods may accelerate lung cancer growth, and increase the risk of lung cancer in people predisposed to the disease.
Commercials on French public television will soon become a relic of the past under President Nicloas Sarkozy’s media reform plans, which many French broadcasters oppose.
Ukraine and Russia are expressing concern about their image as reliable gas suppliers amid growing gas shortages in Europe, for which Moscow and Kyiv are blaming each other.
A flurry of reports Tuesday shows problems for the U.S. economy in the services, retail, factory, and housing sectors.